Russia invades Ukraine: Ukrainian civilians killed during the conflict
Polina was with her family when the car she was traveling in was attacked.
The number of civilians killed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasing every day.
Until this Sunday, the number of civilian victims had reached 210, including several children, according to estimates by Ukraine’s human rights commissioner.
A girl of 7 years died in a attack on a kindergarten; there were fatalities in the capital, Kiev; and 10 members of the Ukrainian Greek community They died when their villages were attacked in the south of the country.
Alisa Hlans She was one of six people killed when her kindergarten was attacked on Friday, the second day of the Russian invasion, in the small town of Okhtyrka, an hour’s drive from Ukraine’s northeastern border.
Alisa was three months shy of her eighth birthday. She was fatally wounded and Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova reported that she died in hospital on Saturday.
A team of doctors was fighting to save the life of a second injured child, the prosecutor added in a message on social networks, over an image with a text that read: “We need peace!”
Several children have been killed by advancing Russian troops, including a girl named Polinawho was in the last year of the primary school in Kyiv.
A child has died in this apartment building in northeastern Ukraine that was hit by Russian bombs.
According to local authorities, she and her parents were shot dead by a Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group on a street in the northwest of the capital.
Polina’s brother and sister were taken to the hospital. Her sister was admitted to intensive care and her brother taken to another children’s hospital.
Most of the civilians have yet to be identified, but their stories are just as bleak.
Another child was killed when an apartment building was bombed in northeastern Ukraine on the second day of the invasion.
The blast sparked fires on several floors of the building in Chuhuiv, a small town on the outskirts of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.
“There are children in the car”
Five members of the same family were killed in southern Ukraine on the first day of the war, as Russian troops advanced on the city of Kherson from Crimea, the region Russia annexed eight years ago.
Details of the attack were first revealed by Ukrainian patrol police chief Yevhen Zhukov, who said it involved the family of a policeman
The circumstances are unclear, but according to press reports, the family had been trying to escape the Russian advance in two cars when they were attacked near Nova Kakhovka, outside Kherson.
Oleg Fedko had decided to move his family away from the area, but since he was on duty in Kherson, his father, also named Oleg Fedko, came over to help and the family left in two cars.
Oleg Fedko Jr.’s brother, Denis, explained that he was talking to his mother when she started yelling that there were children in the car. He then he heard gunshots.
The children’s two grandparents, 56, the patrolman’s wife, Irina, and their two children died.:Sofía, 6 years old, and Iván, a few weeks old.
Victims of the Greek community
More than 450 km away, in two villages not far from the Russian border in southeastern Ukraine, the country’s Greek population suffered a double tragedy.
Nearly 400,000 people have fled Ukraine in the last few days.
Greeks have lived in Ukraine since ancient times and the government in Athens says they are around 150,000.
On Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed sadness and anger over Russian airstrikes near the port city of Mariupol that killed 10 civilians of Greek origin.
Two populations were attacked: Sartana, on the outskirts of Mariupol; and Owls, about 65 km to the north.
In Greece there was outrage at the loss of civilian life and the foreign minister made a vehement protest to the Russian ambassador.
The Russian embassy in Athens blamed the attack on Ukrainian forces, claiming that Russia’s “special military operations” only targeted military units and infrastructure.
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Polina was with her family when the car she was traveling in was attacked.
The number of civilians killed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine is increasing every day.
Until this Sunday, the number of civilian victims had reached 210, including several children, according to estimates by Ukraine’s human rights commissioner.
A girl of 7 years died in a attack on a kindergarten; there were fatalities in the capital, Kiev; and 10 members of the Ukrainian Greek community They died when their villages were attacked in the south of the country.
Alisa Hlans She was one of six people killed when her kindergarten was attacked on Friday, the second day of the Russian invasion, in the small town of Okhtyrka, an hour’s drive from Ukraine’s northeastern border.
Alisa was three months shy of her eighth birthday. She was fatally wounded and Prosecutor General Irina Venediktova reported that she died in hospital on Saturday.
A team of doctors was fighting to save the life of a second injured child, the prosecutor added in a message on social networks, over an image with a text that read: “We need peace!”
Several children have been killed by advancing Russian troops, including a girl named Polinawho was in the last year of the primary school in Kyiv.
A child has died in this apartment building in northeastern Ukraine that was hit by Russian bombs.
According to local authorities, she and her parents were shot dead by a Russian reconnaissance and sabotage group on a street in the northwest of the capital.
Polina’s brother and sister were taken to the hospital. Her sister was admitted to intensive care and her brother taken to another children’s hospital.
Most of the civilians have yet to be identified, but their stories are just as bleak.
Another child was killed when an apartment building was bombed in northeastern Ukraine on the second day of the invasion.
The blast sparked fires on several floors of the building in Chuhuiv, a small town on the outskirts of Kharkiv, the country’s second-largest city.
“There are children in the car”
Five members of the same family were killed in southern Ukraine on the first day of the war, as Russian troops advanced on the city of Kherson from Crimea, the region Russia annexed eight years ago.
Details of the attack were first revealed by Ukrainian patrol police chief Yevhen Zhukov, who said it involved the family of a policeman
The circumstances are unclear, but according to press reports, the family had been trying to escape the Russian advance in two cars when they were attacked near Nova Kakhovka, outside Kherson.
Oleg Fedko had decided to move his family away from the area, but since he was on duty in Kherson, his father, also named Oleg Fedko, came over to help and the family left in two cars.
Oleg Fedko Jr.’s brother, Denis, explained that he was talking to his mother when she started yelling that there were children in the car. He then he heard gunshots.
The children’s two grandparents, 56, the patrolman’s wife, Irina, and their two children died.:Sofía, 6 years old, and Iván, a few weeks old.
Victims of the Greek community
More than 450 km away, in two villages not far from the Russian border in southeastern Ukraine, the country’s Greek population suffered a double tragedy.
Nearly 400,000 people have fled Ukraine in the last few days.
Greeks have lived in Ukraine since ancient times and the government in Athens says they are around 150,000.
On Saturday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed sadness and anger over Russian airstrikes near the port city of Mariupol that killed 10 civilians of Greek origin.
Two populations were attacked: Sartana, on the outskirts of Mariupol; and Owls, about 65 km to the north.
In Greece there was outrage at the loss of civilian life and the foreign minister made a vehement protest to the Russian ambassador.
The Russian embassy in Athens blamed the attack on Ukrainian forces, claiming that Russia’s “special military operations” only targeted military units and infrastructure.
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